EPA DELAYS RELEASE OF MERCURY RULE RE-ANALYSIS UNTIL AFTER ELECTION

EPA is delaying until after the presidential election the release of its highly anticipated and politically charged re-analysis of the Bush administration's mercury emissions proposal, EPA sources say. EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt this summer promised that EPA would release additional research on the mercury rule in late September, including new modeling data on the effects of the mercury proposal combined with the pending Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR). According to one EPA spokesman, EPA will now release the data in...